Public methodology and evidence rules
How LimitBell decides whether a quota or reset message is trustworthy
LimitBell separates original sources, machine collection, human review, and personal account state so that every reset, quota, and service claim remains traceable.
Last updated: September 16, 2026
A public message proves only that a source published information. It does not prove that your personal allowance recovered. Use the reset time shown in your own usage dashboard.
Source priority
A source tier determines which conclusions the source can support, not how authoritative it appears at a glance.
01
Official sources
Product documentation, pricing pages, status pages, and public announcements used to verify rules, service state, and formal changes.
02
Responsible first-party accounts
Public accounts of verifiable product leads or team members. These are responsible-person signals, not automatically company-wide announcements.
03
Community and media leads
Community posts, media reports, and user reports help discover leads. Without first-party evidence they cannot confirm a fact on their own.
04
Personal account state
Usage, reset times, and limits shown in one account belong to that user. They stay in the browser by default and are not generalized into a global rule.
Four event states
An event state describes which review step LimitBell completed. It does not mean that every user was affected.
candidate
Candidate
Machine-collected and passed keyword, deduplication, and basic format checks; no human fact review yet.
observed
Observed
A human verified that the original message exists, while its fact, scope, or personal applicability may remain unresolved.
confirmed
Confirmed
A human verified the original source, core fact, and applicable scope. It still does not mean every account recovered.
withdrawn
Withdrawn
The source disappeared, was corrected, conflicts with evidence, or no longer applies. The explanation remains, but it is not current fact.
Original text, translations, and summaries
The original text and source link are always preserved. Chinese, English, and Japanese versions are labeled as a LimitBell or machine translation. A translation helps reading but never replaces the source, and it must be reviewed again after the source changes.
Revisions, withdrawals, and corrections
If a source is deleted, edited, contradicted, or no longer applies, LimitBell lowers the state or marks the event withdrawn and keeps the revision reason. A stable URL is updated for the same fact instead of creating a near-duplicate page for each wording change. The original source always outranks a LimitBell summary.
Boundaries we do not cross
- LimitBell is not an official website of OpenAI, Codex, or any monitored product.
- We do not read account cookies, sign in to third-party accounts, or publish a personal usage dashboard as public evidence.
- Automated collection can create only a candidate. A human must verify the source, claim, and scope before an event becomes confirmed.
- If a source cannot support a conclusion, the answer remains unknown instead of being completed by a model.